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Title
Painting by Einar Corsten Petersen, depicting "Indians Looking at the Great City"
Creator
Petersen, Einar Corsten
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a painting by Einar Corsten Petersen, depicting "Indians Looking at the Great City", [s.d.]. A group of five Native Americans stand on a hill in the right foreground. One wears a headdress and sits astride a horse while a second headdressed man gestures towards the city in the left distance with his hand. The buildings stand tall, veiled with mist. A vertical bar of the image has been edited out to the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m18023
USC-1-1-1-14104 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7792
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18023
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7792.jpg
Subject
Art--Peterson, Einar
Art
Cities
Source
1-22- [Microfiche number]
7792 [Accession number]
CHS-7792 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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